albums of the year

Presenting our favorite albums of 2024: The most subjectively correct year-end list in the world, every year since 2005...

Presenting our favorite albums + songs from the first half of 2024...

Presenting our favorite albums of 2023: The most subjectively correct year-end list in the world, every year since 2005...

Presenting our favorite albums of 2022...

Our favorite EPs + mixtapes of the year, starring Space Afrika, Bullion, Tomberlin, Nailah Hunter, Sofia Kourtesis, Loraine James, DJ Lostboi + more...

Presenting our favorite albums of the year...

The albums that moved us in 2019...

Presenting the list of our favorite releases from an overwhelming year, posted up way too soon like we always do:

We're not quite halfway through 2018, but here's our annual recap of the albums + songs of the first half of the year anyway. I’ve excluded any records that we’ve released on our new label Luminelle Recordings; otherwise, the stellar new ones from Helena Deland, Anemone, and Hana Vu would have all figured prominently into both of these lists. Also, I guess a few of these aren’t officially out yet.

As the internet's collective attention span continues to dwindle away and the clickbait economy slowly ruins everything good, we made a conscious effort this year to spend more time listening to fewer things. Discovering new favorites will always remain a priority around here, but it felt good to devote more quality time to absorbing ambitious, flawed, elaborately nuanced and layered masterpieces